No School Monday September 6th (Labor Day)

Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

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Reader’s

Workshop

We will continue our first reading unit. Next week we will study reading in the company of others and practice discussing books, practice how the kids can check themselves for understanding and comprehension, and predicting.

Writer’s

Workshop

Through Writer’s Workshop the students will craft true stories that center around a problem they have faced in their lives. Next week we continue to come up with ideas by thinking about places that matter and the kids will actually start writing their problem stories.

Math

What happened to math class?

We will continue studying addition strategies and take a quiz on Friday. We will be looking at the decomposing (break apart or expanded form), number line, place value regrouping, and standard algorithm strategies. We want students to be flexible in their thinking and able to see problems in more than one way and be able to choose which strategy works best for the situation.

Social

Studies

We will begin our social studies curriculum by studying ways to read nonfiction text before reading and studying California and its geography.

Science

We will begin our science with students studying different materials and coming up with their own way to make a pet umbrella.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray